On Saturday, April 27,from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Elk Grove Police Department and the Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give members of the community an
opportunity to prevent
pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous
expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.

Please remove all
pills, tablets and capsules from their packaging and consolidate them
into one bag before bringing them to 8380 Laguna
Palms Way for disposal (needles, auto injectors, or other sharps will
not be accepted). The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.

Last
September, Americans turned in 244 tons of prescription drugs at over
5,200 sites operated by the DEA and its thousands
of state and local law enforcement partners. In its five previous Take
Back events, DEA and its partners took in over 2 million pounds—over a
thousand tons—of pills.

This
initiative addresses a vital public safety and public health issue.
Medicines that languish in home cabinets are
highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of
prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the
number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs.

Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are
obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine
cabinet. In addition, Americans are now advised that their usual methods
for disposing of unused medicines—flushing them down the toilet or
throwing them in the trash—both pose potential safety
and health hazards.

Four
days after the first event, Congress passed the Secure and Responsible
Drug Disposal Act of 2010, which amends the Controlled Substances
Act to allow an “ultimate user” of controlled substance medications to
dispose of them by delivering them to entities authorized by the
Attorney General to accept them. The Act also allows the Attorney
General to authorize long term care facilities to dispose
of their residents’ controlled substances in certain instances. DEA is
drafting regulations to implement the Act. Until new regulations are
in place, local law enforcement agencies like Elk Grove PD and the DEA
will continue to hold prescription drug take-back
events every few months.

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